Haystack

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Usually these M&A posts involve a private startup being purchased, but this past week, we witnessed a different type of deal — Google acquired Fitbit, which had been a public company for nearly four years. Fitbit was started in a previous startup era, raised about $65M in venture capital, went public in 2015, and reached heights of over a $4B market cap. 1/ High End And Low End Disruption – Fitbit ended up owning nearly one quarter of the wearables market.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

At SuiteConnect Ramon Ray spoke with Evan Goldberg, Executive Vice President, and Jayson Maynard, Senior Vice President of Global Field Operations, both of Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit about how NetSuite can serve small companies and bigger companies. They expressed that there are some things big and small companies have in common; everyone wants insight into their business and they need to take care of their customers.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

By Scott Meacham. Growing up I used to love to listen to Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story on the radio. The nuances he would bring to light with just a little deeper look were fascinating. After reading Dale Denwalt’s column in the Oklahoman (October 20) headlined “Insiders Report Flaws in State Startup Ecosystem,” I felt a Paul Harvey moment may be in order.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Global investment platform OurCrowd, has a specific, proven, working answer to the SEC Chairman’s quandary. It has developed a successful approach to private market investment and a dynamic investor community, providing global access to ordinary investors looking to benefit from the success of smart startups. Read more here. The post [OurCrowd in Forbes] How To Let Ordinary Investors Invest In Startups?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

I got the new Pixel 4 XL and am in the process of copying over all of my data and apps and other stuff. Apple and Google make it so easy these days to sync a new phone with an old phone that it is easy to think you are done once the sync is over. But that is unfortunately not the case. The biggest “gotcha” that I worry about is moving all of my two-factor codes over from my old phone to my new phone.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Next week, on November 14, Redpoint will host Office Hours with Anthony Kennada to talk about category creation. In the SaaS world, many businesses talk about creating new categories. To achieve this is rare, and it’s incredibly challenging to do. Anthony was a key part of the team at Gainsight that created the category that has just published a book on the topic called Category Creation , that we will talk about.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Israel’s startup funding is climbing at a strong pace as tech companies raise $2.24B in Q3 , the most raised in Israel in any quarter since 2013. Speaking of funding, Ride Vision is an Israeli startup we are currently investing in which provides motorcycles with collision avoidance (think how Mobileye has impacted car safety). The company just received their first insurance deal to reduce premiums for users. .

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